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English
Noun
decence
- (obsolete) decency
1683, William Clagett, An Answer to the Dissenters Objections Against the Common:When the Decence and Convenience of a thing is considered, we should attribute much to the Wisdom of Authority
1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:What with more decence were in silence kept, And but for this unjust Reproach had slept?
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